PREFACE v✦

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I ix

LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME I xiii

LIST OF TEXT-ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I xv

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT POTTERY xix

NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS WORK xxxvi

PART I✦

GREEK POTTERY IN GENERAL

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY✦

Importance of study of ancient monuments—Value of pottery as evidence of early civilisation—Invention of the art—Use of brick in Babylonia—The potter’s wheel—Enamel and glazes—Earliest Greek pottery—Use of study of vases—Ethnological, historical, mythological, and artistic aspects—Earliest writings on the subject—The “Etruscan” theory—History of the study of Greek vases—Artistic, epexegetic, and historical methods—The vase-collections of Europe and their history—List of existing collections 1–30

CHAPTER II✦

SITES AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISCOVERY OF GREEK VASES

Historical and geographical limits of subject—Description of Greek tombs—Tombs in Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Sicily, Italy—Condition of vases when found—Subsequent restorations—Imitations and forgeries—Prices of vases—Sites on which painted vases have been found: Athens, Corinth, Boeotia, Greek islands, Crimea, Asia Minor, Cyprus, North Africa, Italy, Etruria—Vulci discoveries—Southern Italy, Sicily 31–88